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ἑρμηνεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑρμηνεύς ἑρμηνέως

Structure: ἑρμηνευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: E(rmh=s, the messenger of the gods

Sense

  1. an interpreter, a dragoman
  2. an interpreter, expounder

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "βαρβάρουσ ἔχω, οὐχ ὁμογλώττουσ, καὶ ἑρμηνέων οὐ ῥᾴδιον εὐπορεῖν πρὸσ αὐτούσ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 64:5)
  • ἐσ δὲ τὸ πὰν ἑρμηνέων χατίζει. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 2 27:2)
  • ἡ δὲ Ἀπολλωνία πλησίον ἐστί, καὶ πρὸσ αὕτη τὸ Νύμφαιον, ἱερὸσ τόποσ ἐκ χλοερᾶσ νάπησ καὶ λειμώνων ἀναδιδοὺσ πυρὸσ πηγὰσ σποράδασ ἐνδελεχῶσ ῥέοντοσ, ἐνταῦθά φασι κοιμώμενον ἁλῶναι σάτυρον, οἱο͂ν οἱ πλάσται καὶ γραφεῖσ εἰκάζουσιν, ἀχθέντα δὲ ὡσ Σύλλαν ἐρωτᾶσθαι δι’ ἑρμηνέων πολλῶν ὅστισ εἰή· (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 27 1:2)
  • οὐκοῦν ἑρμηνέων ἑρμηνῆσ γίγνεσθε; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 31:6)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἤρετο Ἀλέξανδροσ δἰ ἑρμηνέων ὅ τι νοοῖ αὐτοῖσ τὸ ἔργον, τοὺσ δὲ ὑποκρίνασθαι ὧδε· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 1 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. an interpreter

  2. an interpreter

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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